Organized science and history. Announcer on august 6, 1945, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb in history japan. Roshima, later, ondays nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. I have a message from the japanese government. From the secretary of state on august 11. Declaration potsdam that specifies the unconditional surrender. Announcer through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this worldaltering events. We begin in new orleans, at the National World war ii museum. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take up the war on the pacific and asia, 1941 to 1945. What are the most interesting aspects . One of the interesting aspects is how quickly the turning point came in. In are just about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. That was a major portion of japans strength. Whatever chance japan had of winning
He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he u
Well. Warm to hot but the wind picks up later and fire danger goes back up again. Its higher tonight and morning, so that red flag warning has been issued for the north and east bay hills, gusts over 40 to 50 in the Higher Elevations. Almost 90 degrees, temperatures well above average for the rest of the week and probably warmest tomorrow. They are all pretty close. Some of these are wind dependent with that easterly or northeasterly breeze making a bigger impact than no breeze at all. It will still be offshore. 40s, 50s and 60s here, east bay upper 50s and low 60s for some. But 60 degrees already in lafayette, so some are out of the gate on the warm side with temperatures beginning to move near 90 degrees today. Sal is here to focus on . Well, the 80 freeway, which a lot of people want to know about. Yesterday we had problems on the bridge and today its kind of a normal looking commute on 80. 35 minutes, pretty good for this time of morning to get to the maze. The bridges, san mateo l
Brian here is a piece of video of you on this network in 1979. If you look at the recent government reports concerning threemile island, the government concedes that one out of 10 people will eventually die of cancer in the threemile island area. Brian do you remember that time almost 40 years ago and have you changed your thinking . I remember that very vividly. Michio when the threemile island to happen, ever was that we needed a scientist about the site for this mess to the American People. So that contacted me and i said to myself this why i do for a what i do for a living. Im a physicist. I said to myself i will get on National Television and National Radio because the situation demands it. Not because i want to do it but because people had to know, the dangers, the positives, the negatives of energy, one of the Big Questions of the age. That is how i backed into becoming a media person. Brian you say in your book that there was a teacher in second grade that had a big impact on y
Brian do you remember that time almost 40 years ago and have you changed your thinking . Michio i remember that very vividly. When the threemile island to happen, ever was that we needed a scientist about the site for this mess to the American People. So that contacted me and i said to myself this why i do for a what i do for a living. Im a physicist. I said to myself i will get on National Television and National Radio because the situation demands it. Not because i want to do it but because people had to know, the dangers, the positives, the negatives of energy, one of the Big Questions of the age. That is how i backed into becoming a media person. Brian you say in your book that there was a teacher in second grade that had a big impact on your future. Michio she said god so loved the earth that he put the earth just right of the sun, not too far that the oceans will freeze but just right from the sun. Now, i was floored. I was in second grade. This was a scientific principle with th